Month: December 2019

Prochronism and parachronism comes from the Greek word ‘chronos’ which refers to a time. Prochronism is a chronological error in which a person, event, occurrence is assigned a date earlier than the actual one. Parachronism is a chronological error in which a…

FARMERS’ INCOME ON RISE By Bikash C Paul Some good news for the farmers, ultimately! The ‘good news’ is more significant as this is happening despite a decline in farm production. If we go by the latest research report by…

Is Santa Claus a mythical figure, or a magical character, or was a real father figure who came with gifts for kids? Is Santa Claus real or magical? Or combination of one of them or all of them? Mythical, magical,…

By Bikash C Paul For BJP and Sangh Parivar, Jawaharlal Nehru has been the favourite whipping boy on Jammu and Kashmir in India. The ‘Parivar’ never sighed away to blame the first Prime Minister of India for his alleged ‘soft…

QUICK TAKE By Bikash C Paul As if Rape is not Enough… The horrendous burning incident of a rape victim from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh in India has brought the terrible plight of rape survivors to the fore once again….

Charlott von Schedvin and PK Mahanandia are a Swedish couple. They have been married for more than forty years: late 1970s to 2010s. In these four decades, Sweden and India has changed in many ways and in different ways but…

QUICK TAKE By Bikash C Paul Politics in India has never been a dull affair! It frequently throws up all shades of democracy–good or bad. The month-long political drama in Maharashtra that began with a mandate in favour of BJP-Shiv…

Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati is a teenager credited for inventing ‘six-, twelve-, and sixty-player circular chess variants’ and for developing a ramp system that enables access for the disabled people’s mobility. The teenager is left with ‘intact brain and intact voice and…